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Quotes About Tracking

What is the government doing or not doing in terms of tracking you, following you, investigating you? And if you're suspicionless, it should be none of the above.
~ Jason Chaffetz
It's a basic, intuitive right, worthy of enshrinement: Citizens, not the corporations that stealthily track them, should own their own data.
~ Franklin Foer
anyone know where Kell is?" "Sleeping," Vin said. "He came in late last night, and hasn't gotten up yet." Ham grunted, taking a bite of baywrap. "Dox?" "In his room on the third floor," Vin said. "He got up early, came down to get something to eat, and went back upstairs." ... Ham raised an eyebrow. "You always keep track of where everyone is like that?" "Yes.
~ Brandon Sanderson
So, we came all this way," Wyndle said, "and tracked the most dangerous man we've ever met, merely so you could steal his breakfast.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Today, in 2011, if you go and buy a color laser printer from any major laser printer manufacturer and print a page, that page will end up having slight yellow dots printed on every single page in a pattern which makes the page unique to you and to your printer. This is happening to us today. And nobody seems to be making a fuss about it.
~ Mikko Hypponen
Fifteen years after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the United States government still has little idea how many foreign travelers overstay their visas annually and remain in the U.S.
~ Mark Meadows
A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
~ Adam Cohen
Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking 'muck' across the floor of fact.
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
GEORGE TENET WAS AWARE of Osama bin Laden. He supported the small bin Laden tracking unit in the Counterterrorist Center. But by the end of 1997, neither the new CIA director nor the agency placed bin Laden very high on their priority lists. The agency's view of bin Laden remained similar to Prince Turki's: He was a blowhard, a dangerous and wealthy egomaniac, and a financier of other radicals, but he was also isolated in Afghanistan.
~ Steve Coll
Set up cash envelopes for the three categories where you most commonly overspend. The most commonly overspent categories we've seen are food, clothing, and recreation. Make a game of it to see how much of your cash remains in the envelope at the start of the next
~ Steve Economides
When panning or tracking with a moving subject, it's usually a good idea to let him walk out of frame at the end of the shot to provide more options in editing.
~ Steven Ascher
Just as we can't tell how much we've eaten simply by relying on internal cues, we can't really tell how much we've gained or lost without some external benchmark.
~ Brian Wansink
The footprints go this way, said Cuddy, and then they return. But the ones coming back aren't so deep as the ones going. You can see they're later ones because they're over the top of the other ones. So he was heavier than he was coming back, yes? Right, said Detritus. So that means...? He lose weight?
~ Terry Pratchett
Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.
~ Bill Gates
I look up but don't spot him. "I take care of myself. I ain't living with nobody. Got my own digs. What are you doing up there?" "Tracking the Hag. Trying to devise a way to trap her. She's fast but she's not a sifter." I jerk, and look around warily. That's all we need right now. "Is she here?" "If you brought that crazy bitch near me again." Ryodan doesn't finish his sentence. He doesn't need to.
~ Karen Marie Moning
There are a few things a hunting man can't do without. His bloodhound is one of them.
~ Karen Marie Moning
If you choose to track only two areas of your business, track your leads and your listings.
~ Gary Keller
Here is what you need to know about your sales contracts written: 1. Number of units written 2. Total volume written 3. Gross income written The best practice is also to track how many of your contracts written were listings and how many were buyers.
~ Gary Keller
To properly set goals for and track sales contracts closed, you need to know: 1. Number of units closed 2. Total volume closed 3. Gross income closed
~ Gary Keller
[I am] not even two bites into breakfast, and there are already nearly 25 sites that are tracking me. I have navigated to a total of four.
~ Gary Kovacs
This is simply a piece of paper that has a month's worth of days across the top (1–31) and your three daily 100-calorie changes written down the side. Every evening, you check off the changes you've accomplished. This small act of accountability makes you more mindful
~ Brian Wansink
For years, well before consumer tracking became the norm, Radio Shack stores would routinely ask their customers for their addresses and phone numbers. For a while I just refused, but that was socially awkward. Instead, I got in the habit of replying with "9800 Savage Road, Columbia, MD, 20755": the address of the NSA.
~ Bruce Schneier
Embedded in digital photos is information such as the date, time, and location—yes, many cameras have GPS—of the photo's capture; generic information about the camera, lens, and settings; and an ID number of the camera itself. If you upload the photo to the web, that information often remains attached to the file.
~ Bruce Schneier
The UK company Cobham sells a system that allows someone to send a "blind" call to a phone—one that doesn't ring, and isn't detectable. The blind call forces the phone to transmit on a certain frequency, allowing the sender to track that phone to within one meter.
~ Bruce Schneier